A 72-Year-Old Man Arrives at the Emergency Department Complaining of Severe

A 72-year-old man arrives at the emergency department complaining of severe abdominal pain and nausea. He has a history of coronary artery disease and had cardiac angiography recently. The patient is an active smoker with a 30-pack-year smoking history. He has an emergency laparotomy after an initial evaluation. A section of the small intestine is removed. As seen in the image below, there are several large-caliber vessels with needle-shaped cholesterol clefts in their lumens. Given these findings, the patient is at highest risk for which of the following complications?

A) Kidney injury
B) Myelosuppression
C) Nephrolithiasis
D) Pulmonary infarction
E) Septic arthritis

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